Howdy,

And to all many thanks.

Let me get a bit further into the scenario.  We've got to migrate our
production TurboImage database to an Oracle database on the 9k.
Our third party vendor has provided software (said laughingly) to do
this, but they have apparantly never encounterd a database of this
size.

In this particular instance the program processes through specified
datasets and writes the records out to a flat ASCII file with a record
length of 1024 bytes.  We have some "relatively" large sets one of
which is currently better'n 22 million records of 85 bytes each.  The
extract program generously writes each 85 byte record into a 1024
byte record which is why I equate the output file to a tape file and
let 'er rip.  The test base I am using wrote out a tape file of approx
7GB of which when I tried to reload to FTP or tar or ? to the 9k
I was only able to load 4GB.  Well ok.  It's only a test.  However,
the *real* thing will be 18+GB.

Now complicate this by the fact that I know squat about Posix/Unix.
That's the background for all the recent pleas for help, after all I can
only read so fast.

Anyhow, I'm heading down the pike right now for a cold one and will
be in this weekend to give the dd function a road test.  Anyway you
come at it though it looks like breaking the file down somehow is
also going to be required.  We have DLT drives on the 9k but only
DDS II on the 3k.

I'll let y'all know how it goes and thanks (a *bunch*) for the help.  When
it comes your turn to be cuffed I'll cut ya some slack.

James (gonna get beer) Trudeau
Pits, Texas